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Re:Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build ... by mrbungie on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:42AM (#42793330)
Oracle has 2-3% market share as a Cloud Provider.

MSFT or even Google (AWS is not as mature in that space imho) made perfect sense, Oracle doesn't.

Elon and Larry are good friends, I would guess that has something to do with this development.

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Re:Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build ... by Octoth0rpe on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:48AM (#42793381)
> Oracle has 2-3% market share as a Cloud Provider.

And the market leader is what, 30%? about 1 order of magnitude. That's not such a huge difference, and I suspect that Oracle's size is disproportionate in the enterprise space (which is where a lot of AI services are targeted) whereas AWS has a _ton_ of non-enterprise things hosted.

In any case, 2-3% is big enough where this kind of investment is 1) financially possible, 2) desirable to grow to be #2 or #3

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Re:Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build ... by mrbungie on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:30AM (#42794543)
Getting from 2% (Oracle) to 10% (GCP) market share would need 37.97% CAGR in 5 years. In a vacuum where everything else keeps the same, maybe, but I see that goal as very difficult to attain in what is a highly competitive industry right now.

Disclaimer: I work at a highly regulated industry and we are fine running our "enterprise" workloads in Azure (and even AWS for a spinoff company in the same sector). Oracle has no specific moat in that area imho, unless you already locked-in in one of their software offerings.

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